There are few crops more satisfying to harvest than fresh homegrown tomatoes; it is one of the reasons why they are top of many people’s favorite crops to grow at home. So it is important to do ...

Growing a vegetable garden is plenty of work on its own without worrying that your efforts will be ruined by hungry pests. One of the crops where this is the biggest concern is tomatoes, which attract ...

Q: We have 17 very healthy-looking tomato plants that have a total of 93 tomatoes on them so far. However, we are seeing little red spiders on the undersides of the leaves. Perhaps they are spider ...

Q: For the past two years I have fought either spider mites or whiteflies on my tomato plants. I have tried home remedies and everything the nursery has recommended, including neem oil. They end up ...

Q: My tomatoes show an unknown leaf disease that has slowly spread over 35 percent of all tomato plants. Based on my observations, it started approximately four weeks ago within the center of one ...

Just when I thought my volunteer cherry tomato plant would continue to thrive into its second year, it became infested with spider mites and had to be removed. Last September, it had sprouted in the ...

A pest known for damaging tomato plants and other crops has been detected in New Zealand for the first time. Biosecurity New Zealand said two populations of the tomato red spider mite (Tetranychus ...